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Mine, Quarry, Pit, and Tunnel Accidents And Mine, Quarry, Pit, and Tunnel Accidents and Fatalities From www.safetynews.co.uk Courtesy of Burgess and Associates-Hot Zone USA www.hzburgess.com www.safetynews.co.uk began compiling accident and fatality incidents in April of 2007. The following are accidents and fatalities involving mines, quarries, pits, and tunnels taken from their website. April 2007-August 20th 2013 August 2013 Israel Worker killed in machinery accident at tunnel A 53-year old construction worker was killed yesterday after being struck in the lower body by heavy equipment while working at a tunnel mining site at Sha'ar HaGai, 15 miles from Jerusalem on the Tel Aviv highway. 20th August 2013 Australia Worker breaks ankle in fall down chute at NSW mine A 25-year old worker broke his ankle in a fall down a chute at the Drayton Coal Mine in Muswellbrook, he was trapped for a couple of hours prior to hospitalisation. 20th August 2013 USA Fatal accident at Wyoming coal mine A transport accident has claimed the life of a Wyoming miner at the Black Thunder mine of Arch Coal. The 24-year old victim was in the cab of his lorry when a power shovel moving up a ramp rolled backwards into his vehicle, a colleague was hospitalised but his injuries are not life-threatening. 19th August 2013 China Tunnel collapse kills 4 workers at hydro site Four construction workers have died in a structural collapse at a tunnel under construction at the hydropower station site being built by Jiangxi Water and Hydropower Construction in Jiangxi province.14th August 2013 Slovakia Fatal blasting explosion at road tunnel site A 39-year old worker died and 5 others were injured in an explosion which led to an earth slippage during blasting work yesterday in the Sibenik tunnel near Spissky Hrhov, part of the the new D1 highway between Janovce and Jablonov. 13th August 2013 Mine, Quarry, Pit, and Tunnel Accidents and Fatalities From www.safetynews.co.uk Courtesy of Burgess and Associates-Hot Zone USA www.hzburgess.com Austria Worker killed in stone crusher A 21-year old Steyr worker has died in a crush accident while trying to deal with a breakdown in stone-crushing machinery at the site of a new chairlift facility at Schladming. He had switched off the machinery and then lifted the cover to step down on to its conveyor belt system. However it lurched forward and he became pinned between the roller and crusher plates. 8th August 2013 South Africa Fall of ground fatality at platinum mine A Section 54 stop work order was issued at the Bokoni platinum mine of Atlatsa Resources in Limpopo after a miner died in a fall of ground accident. 8th August 2013 USA Wall collapse kills Kentucky miner A 56-year old Kentucky miner has died and 2 others were injured following the collapse of a wall underground at Huff Creek Mine No. 1 operated by Lone Mountain Processing in East Kentucky. 8th August 2013 July 2013 Ukraine Miner killed in fall of rock A miner was killed and 3 others were hospitalised following a fall of rock and a methane discharge at the Shcheglovskaya-Glubokaya coal mine in Makeyevka, Donetsk. 15th July 2013 South Korea Worker dead, 6 missing in flooded tunnel at reservoir One worker was killed yesterday and 6 are missing in a flooded tunnel at a reservoir near the Han River which runs through Seoul. The workers were removing old water pipes at the bottom of the 48-metre high reservoir when water ingress occurred from the rain-swollen Han, leaving them trapped in the tunnel. 16th July 2013 Mine, Quarry, Pit, and Tunnel Accidents and Fatalities From www.safetynews.co.uk Courtesy of Burgess and Associates-Hot Zone USA www.hzburgess.com June 2013 Switzerland Double fatality as lorry rolls 800m down tunnel at pump station Two workers were killed yesterday at the Mega-Pump Station Linthal 2015 in an accident involving a lorry which rolled 800 metres back down into a tunnel, details of the accident were unclear, it was not known if the lorry had completed unloading material or had experienced mechanical failure as it was leaving the tunnel. 26th June 2013 Thailand Workers killed and missing in landslide at rock grinding plant A worker has died and 2 others are missing following a landslide at the Phetsamut rock grinding plant in Phetchaburi, south of Bangkok, 4 other injured workers were admitted to Phra Chomklao Hospital. 4th June 2013 Indonesia Worker killed in tunnel maintenance accident A worker carrying out maintenance in a tunnel in a Deep Orezone of the Grasberg mine of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold in Papua was severely injured in an accident at the weekend and subsequently died in hospital. 3rd June 2013 May 2013 Turkey Gas explosion kills coal miner An explosion in a private coal mine in Sirnak killed a 47-year old miner, 15 others managed to escape to safety. Search and rescue teams recovered the victim's body in an 11-hour operation. 20th May 2013 South Africa Gold mine fatality A miner was killed in a rail accident at level 113 on Thursday at the Kusasalethu mine of Harmony Gold in Carletonville. 17th May 2013 China 40 miners killed in 2 gas accidents Forty miners have died in separate gas incidents at 2 collieries over the weekend. Twenty eight miners died at the Taozigou mine in Luzhou, Sichuan, where it was Mine, Quarry, Pit, and Tunnel Accidents and Fatalities From www.safetynews.co.uk Courtesy of Burgess and Associates-Hot Zone USA www.hzburgess.com speculated that poor ventilation and a high concentration of gas occurred during unauthorised mining, all mining in the province has been suspended pending a programme of safety audits. At the Dashan coal mine in Pingba County, Guizhou, 12 miners died and 2 were injured in a gas explosion there. 13th May 2013 Canada Worker buried under extracted earth at gold mine The Ministry of Labour in Ontario is investigating a crush fatality at the Eagle River gold mine of Wesdome in the Thunder Bay area where a worker was buried under a pile of earth from a mining extraction. 2nd May 2013 April 2013 Russia Coal mine fire An electric cable fire in a rock-drill shop at the Novo Kalyinskaya coal mine in Sverdlovsk led to the evacuation of all 122 miners underground, no injuries were reported. 26th April 2013 South Africa Mine worker killed in loco accident The Department of Mineral Resources is investigating a fatal accident at Mponeng mine of AngloGold Ashanti at Carletonville where a locomotive operator died after being struck by a locomotive. 26th April 2013 England UK Coal fined over Notts colliery crush accident At Nottingham Crown Court UK Coal has been fined £125K plus £175K in costs over a fatal accident at Thoresby Colliery on 24th July 2009 where a 47-year old worker was crushed to death. A load of steel pipes, each weighing more than 11 stones, were being unloaded from a rail-borne car underground, but they became unstable and rolled sideways as the worker cut plastic bands securing the load. HSE investigation found that the pipe packs could not sit evenly on the type of car being use and could become unstable on a tilted track. The company pleaded guilty to breaches of Section 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974. 17th April 2013 Mine, Quarry, Pit, and Tunnel Accidents and Fatalities From www.safetynews.co.uk Courtesy of Burgess and Associates-Hot Zone USA www.hzburgess.com Rep Ireland Tipperary miner killed in rockfall Efforts were ongoing yesterday to recover the body of the operator of a loader who was buried in a rockfall in a shaft at the lead and zinc Lisheen Mine of the Vedanta Resources Group, located between Moyne and Templetuohy in north Tipperary. 7th April 2013 Tanzania 3 killed in Arusha gravel mine collapse Three miners were killed and a major rescue effort was launched to reach 11 miners and lorry drivers trapped underground when a roof collapsed in a gravel mine in the Moshono area of Arusha in the north of Tanzania. Mining operations were ongoing at the time and 2 lorries were being loaded when the collapse occurred. 2nd April 2013 March 2013 Tibet Landslide traps 83 at Lhasa gold miners' camp As many as 83 workers have become trapped under a landslide at a dormitory camp at a mine in the Maizhokunggar area of Lhasa, the workers are believed to belong to a subsidiary of the China National Gold Group Corporation and were caught by surprise by the slippage estimated at 3km wide and of 2 million cubic metres in volume. Hospitals were alerted to receive emergency patients but late on Friday it was unclear whether rescuers had been able to reach any workers at the stricken area. 30th March 2013 USA Quarry worker killed in rock blasting accident A worker was killed in a crush accident after being buried under several tonnes of rock following an accident during routine blasting of rock at the Fred Weber Inc quarry in Maryland Heights, Missouri. 29th March 2013 Russia Search for missing Siberian miners A search and rescue effort has been ongoing at the Osinnikovskaya emergency mine in Kemerovo where 4 miners are unaccounted for. Of the 143 miners underground early on Wednesday, 134 managed to leave the mine by their own means as another 5 continued with drainage work. 28th March 2013 Mine, Quarry, Pit, and Tunnel Accidents and Fatalities From www.safetynews.co.uk Courtesy of Burgess and Associates-Hot Zone USA www.hzburgess.com Poland Miners rescued after seismic event at Silesian copper mine A successful rescue was achieved of all 19 miners trapped for 8 hours 1,000 metres underground at the Rudna copper mine in Polkowice, Lower Silesia, following a seismic event measuring 5 on the Richter scale.
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